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Louisville, Ky., police have taken steps that could result in the firing of two officers connected to Breonna Taylor’s death — one who sought the no-knock search warrant that led detectives to her apartment and another found to have opened fire. Det. Joshua Jaynes received a pre-termination letter, media outlets …

Police investigating a Christmas day bombing in Nashville say they may never know the motive behind the attack. “We hope to get an answer. Sometimes, it’s just not possible,” David Rausch, the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said Monday in an interview on NBC’s Today show. “The best …

The EU campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 is off to an uneven start in what will be a marathon effort to administer shots to enough of the bloc’s 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic. The vaccination drive kicked off over the weekend, with health workers and residents …

British hospitals are cancelling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for COVID-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the virus. Another 41,385 confirmed cases were recorded across the U.K. on Monday. It was the first time …

One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly worded law aimed at combating terrorism, according to state-linked media and her family. Loujain Alhathloul’s case, and her imprisonment for the past two and a half …

The Girl Scouts is in a “highly damaging” recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core services to girls, leading to marketplace confusion and some girls unwittingly joining the Boy Scouts, lawyers for the century-old Girl Scouts organization claim in court papers. The competition, which started …

Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed an upcoming year dedicated to the family as he doubled down on one of his papal priorities and urged renewed attention to his controversial 2016 document on family life. Francis announced the upcoming year of the family would begin on March 19, the fifth anniversary …

Authorities said the man suspected of setting off a bomb in a recreational vehicle that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas Day died in the explosion. U.S. Attorney Don Cochran identified the suspect on Sunday as Anthony Quinn Warner. Investigators said they used DNA to identify the remains found at the …

Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that is believed to spread more quickly. Northern Ireland went into a six-week lockdown, while in Wales, restrictions that …

Jennie Aitken, 33, began noticing it weeks into the pandemic. The Victoria woman has a family and was frequently checking in with good friends, but since her management job with a local health authority required her to work from home, she could go days without seeing other people. “I realized …